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‘Soul of the community’: Sabelo Mlangeni’s groundbreaking photography – in pictures
South African photographer Sabelo Mlangeni has won the James Barnor prize, an annual award recognising artists from different regions of Africa, with the winner announced at Arles. The recognition highlights a body of documentary work spanning nearly three decades that focuses on community, intimacy and everyday life, much of it depicting marginalised and queer subjects…
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Afreximbank Officially Launches $1 Billion Pan-African Film Fund; Lavaille Lavette Set As CEO Of Fund
The Cairo-based African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has officially launched its $1 billion Pan-African Film Fund, appointing publishing veteran Lavaille Lavette as its Chief Executive Officer. Established through the bank’s development impact investment arm, the Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA), the fund aims to strengthen Africa’s creative industries by mobilising long-term capital for content…
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Nigeria’s president demands to know how fake agency was allegedly set up in his office
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has ordered a corruption investigation into allegations that a fictitious government agency, the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), was set up within his own office and secured public funding worth $950,000 (£700,000). The presidency says the letter from the president’s chief of staff purportedly creating the body was forged, and…
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Morocco set a proud example for Africa as France await at World Cup
Morocco have become the first African side to reach the World Cup quarter-finals at two consecutive tournaments, following the 2022 semi-finalists’ run to the last eight at the current finals. Having beaten the Netherlands and Canada in the knockout rounds, the Atlas Lions now face hosts France on Thursday at Boston Stadium, and their success…
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Warner Music’s ADA Begins to Integrate Revelator With Europe, Middle East & Africa Expansion
Warner Music Group (WMG) has begun integrating Revelator, the independent music distributor it acquired in April 2026, and has announced an expansion of its Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) division across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The move matters because it deepens a major label’s push into the fast-growing independent distribution market, combining Revelator’s…
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Ghana delays visit by South African president amid row over anti-migrant protests
Ghana has postponed a planned visit by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, citing a worsening row over anti-migrant violence in South Africa that has already led to hundreds of Ghanaians being sent home. The visit, expected in the first week of August, had been intended to ease tensions between the two nations, but Ghanaian officials…
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Ancient fire use at Wonderwerk Cave dated to 1.79 million years ago
Researchers say they have found evidence that early human ancestors used fire at Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa as long as 1.79 million years ago, pushing back one of the earliest known records of fire use by hominins by hundreds of thousands of years. The finding, announced in a 24 June press release from the…
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Divine Lunga escapes Johannesburg shooting after being mistaken for police officer
South African police say they are investigating a case of attempted murder but that no arrests have been made so far.